Publications
Below you will find a few recent publications. You can find an archive of all my publications on the SCG website, including bibtex references and downloadable PDFs.
You can find citation data on Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar. Alternative bibtex references are available from DBLP.
My Erdös number is 3: Oscar Nierstrasz — David M. Jackson — E. Rodney Canfield — Paul Erdös
Some recent publications
You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Exploring GitHub Actions through EGAD: An Experience Report
Published in International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 23), 2023
We present our experience developing and using EGAD (Explorable GitHub Action Domain Model) and share valuable insights we gained. Our focus is on three key areas: (i) onboarding of Glamorous Toolkit (GT), (ii) creating a comprehensive and explorable domain model of GA, and (iii) highlighting the potential of EGAD as a research workbench.
Recommended citation: Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo and Alexandre Bergel and Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz, Exploring GitHub Actions through EGAD: An Experience Report, IWST 23: Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, 2023. https://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Vale23b.pdf
EGAD: A moldable tool for GitHub Action analysis
Published in 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023), 2023
We present our preliminary steps in building EGAD (Explorable GitHub Action Domain Model), a moldable domain-specific tool to depict and analyze detailed GA workflow data.
Recommended citation: Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo and Alexandre Bergel and Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz, EGAD: A moldable tool for GitHub Action analysis, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 23), 2023. https://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Vale23a.pdf
A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review
Published in Journal of Systems and Software, 2023
We present a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of the last decade of research in SE.
Recommended citation: Pooja Rani and Arianna Blasi and Nataliia Stulova and Sebastiano Panichella and Alessandra Gorla and Oscar Nierstrasz, A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review, Journal of Systems and Software, 195, January 2023. https://www.oscar.nierstrasz.org/files/publications/Rani22c-ADecadeOfCodeCommentQualityAssessment.pdf
Making Systems Explainable
Published in VISSOFT, 2022
In this keynote presentation, we will show how software systems can be made explainable with the help of three interacting technologies.
Recommended citation: Oscar Nierstrasz and Tudor Gîrba, Making Systems Explainable, VISSOFT 22: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, IEEE, 2022. https://www.oscar.nierstrasz.org/files/publications/Nier22a-ExplainableSystems.pdf